Episode Details

Gartner puts a $206.5B price tag on the agent economy — and today's news, from agentic storefronts to MCP payment rails to self-improving CX, shows GTM teams exactly where it's going.

Hosted by Jack King. Today's stories:

• Gartner: AI-agent software spending to hit $206.5B in 2026, up 139% YoY — the fastest-growing slice of a $2.5T AI market (only ~17% of orgs have deployed agents; 40%+ of projects seen cancelled by 2027). [source]
• DaVinci Commerce ships Agentic BrandStore Enterprise (GA) with an Accenture investment — end-to-end agentic commerce inside ChatGPT, Gemini & Claude; the shift from SEO to answer-engine optimization. [source]
• Moneris releases an MCP server for agentic commerce — letting AI agents securely reach payment APIs and complete real merchant transactions. [source]
• Alorica partners with Crescendo to deploy AI-native CX across voice and chat — self-improving agents built to keep getting better after go-live instead of decaying. [source]
• New Relic launches Autopilot (an autonomous SRE agent) plus 'Ground Truth,' a trusted-data API giving agents clean access to observability telemetry. [source]
• Qualcomm commits to AI-agent hardware support across 40+ upcoming devices — pushing agents from the cloud to on-device, local inference at the edge. [source]

Sponsored by Varosity.ai — https://varosity.ai

AI disclosure: this episode is AI-written and voiced by an AI host (Jack King), produced with Varosity.ai.